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Originally Posted by smallpox
Sun Zi is a realist perspective to international relations. It was a shared concept just as feudalism was across the world a long time ago. Does that prove a social axiom? Not really, outside conflict and security studies, realism has become much less relevant I'd argue since the 1920's.
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Really? Then which school of international relations would explain China's rise in the last couple of decades, as opposed to, say, India, a democracy? It certainly wouldn't be liberalism...though not necessarily Sun Zi's version of realism either. Actually, realism is a fairly nebulous term - even Kennan considered himself a realist. But bearing that in mind, I don't think realism is any less relevant than it ever was.
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Has there been a vote against Islam? If there's a legislation against practicing Islam in the US, then the supreme court would strike it down as being unconstitutional.
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We went to war in Iraq based on little more than the fact that they were Islamic. We can do just about anything short of banning the religion without any threat of a legal challenge. Just because it happens in a peacemeal fashion doesn't mean the effect doesn't exist.
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So you decided to lump this in a thread for US - Chinese relations for absolutely no reason.
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Cultural relations, not security relations.
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Ok......what's your point?
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The point...this is a religious conflict.